Musikmesse 2015 Frankfurt - Germany

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Be there from 14th to 18th April - when the doors open for 2015 Frankfurt Musikmesse – spirit of music! The international fair for musical instruments, sheet music, music production and music business connections.

The Frankfurt Musikmesse is the world's leading trade fair for the world of music. There, you will find a complete range of products with everything required for making music, not to mention innumerable workshops, concerts, demonstrations and discussion events.

This year all "free reed instruments" will return to the beautiful Hall 3.1 and Roland will have a large accordion/diatonic display Hall 5.0 B38 - so do not miss!!!

Video excerpt from the Opening Concert. Details of the players names coming shortly.

The 26th to 30th March 2015 was the V International Competition and VI International Festival 'Accordion Plus'. This event is organized by the Department of Culture of Rostov-on-Don and the International Music Centre "Harmony" to packed halls.

Video of 4 major concerts and colorful posters and information is at: 2015Rostov

Diatonic Accordion Online Course and Lessons - WORLDWIDE/ITALY

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Organetto/diatonic accordion - Have you never played and do you want to start now?

The diatonic accordion multimedia online course, designed and created by the Italian Diatonic Accordion Academy, today is recognized in Italy and worldwide among the best educational tools for learning this musical instrument.

Lessons are clear, simple and the intuitive interface provides the absolute beginner, as well as those who already play and want to make progress, with a source of information and advice of great value to address their study in the right way so that everyone can start to play right now!

Are you already able to play but you'd like to enrich your repertoire and improve yourself under the guidance of a professional teacher? The basic course includes also lessons given to advanced techniquesThe course includes also lessons, from basic to advanced levels, for those who want to get the best possiblilities from their own instrument. An update repertoire of pieces constantly in evolution provides students with the opportunity to choose between tunes of different difficulty.

As a result of decades of experience in teaching this instrument, the online course offers an indispensable knowledge for studying diatonic accordion. The rigour and attention to the course contents refer to the traditional teaching of the great masters of this instrument, bringing the student gradually to the knowledge of wide and varied musical repertoires.

The fundamental purpose of this course is therefore to fill an educational gap which often limits or discourages the student. Not only that. The Italian Diatonic Accordion Academy has also thought to those who, having no time or opportunity to find a good teacher of organ in their town, want to play the accordion, acquiring step by step a proper approch and a varied and amusing repertoire.

New Orleas Jazz & Heritage Festival - USA

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From the very beginning, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was envisioned as an important event that would have great cultural significance and popular appeal. The Festival was the culmination of years of discussions and efforts by city leaders who wanted to create an event worthy of the city’s legacy as the birthplace of jazz. For the 2015 Edition an impressive list of artists are present - pls consult the website for when / where - your favourate artist is performing:

SCANDINAVIAN SQUEEZE-IN - Sweden

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24-26 April 2015

For the 16th year in a row, squeezebox players from near and far will gather with our instruments in Skåne (southern Sweden) for another weekend of making music, sharing knowledge and skills, and general enjoyment.

Where:

Torna Hallestad is a culturally rich little village near a unique and beautiful "twisted forest", not far from Lund in Southern Sweden. There we rent the main scout house at Gamlegård, with sleeping accommodations, kitchen, and rooms where we can play, talk, and (of course) eat our meals.

As usual, it is planned to gather at a central location and then share car space to travel together to Gamlegård.

Reservations for bookings should be made latest Monday, April 6 as our deadline for booking, because it needs to plan how much food to prepare. But the sooner you can book, the better; available beds for 28 people.

Info: http://www.nonce.dk/SSI/

En avril, accordéons-nous ! CNIMA - France

Video: In December 2014, we published a segment of this TV program. We now publishing the complete 27 minute program "Au Bonheur de Nacre" March 2014 which featured Alain Pennec interviews and performance, on the accordion TV program Au Bonheur de Nacre, with excellent presenter Pascal Savard, broadcast by LMtv Sarthe.

In 2014 Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi was performing together with Italian operatic tenor Andrea Bocelli in Ülker Sports Arena in Turkey for the 20th Anniversary of the TEMA Foundation (Turkisch Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, For Reforestation and Protection of Natural Habitats) at a concert organized by the Most Production.

Conducting was Marcello Rota with Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi as guest artist performing as soloist with the orchestra for some pieces with Andrea Bocelli.

Monty’s Maggot presents the 4th Euro Mutton weekend - UK

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"The 4th French/Euro Dance Music Workshop Weekend" in The Blowzabella EuroTradition with Andy Cutting, Jo Freya and Dave Shepherd is on. This will be the last workshop at the Shoulder of Mutton!!!

When Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 April 2015.Where The Shoulder of Mutton, The Swan and Red Cross Hall, Wantage, Oxfordshire.What to Expect: A relaxed atmosphere for all levels of musician!The morning workshops are for ‘single instruments’ (boxes with Andy, fiddle with Dave, and ‘other instruments’ (wind, guitars, dulcimers, hurdy gurdy’s etc with Jo) and we’ll look at both tunes and technique. ‘Other instrument’ players who’d like to join one of the other morning groups may do so with the tutors’ OK, we don’t want to unbalance things!In the afternoon we will split the group into multi-instrumental ‘bands’ to work on ‘playing for dance’ —the feel, lift and tempo for a good dance tune. Saturday afternoon starts with a short dance workshop, since to play for dance, one needs to know the dance! All participants will experience a band workshop with all 3 tutors.

DUO RUSSO/VILENSKY ”Cello meets bandoneon” - Denmark

"The passionate bandoneon and the elegant cello, it would appear, have little in common. But not when the international duet of Paolo Russo and Ruslan Vilensky take to the stage. They are both virtuosos of their instruments, both extraordinarily charismatic and creative, both of their concert schedules extend across the whole world, and both of them believe that music cannot have any borders. So come ready for an energetic dialogue between the bandoneon and the cello, which won’t be short of Italian temperament, Argentinean melancholy and subdued Northern beauty." Introducing a truly international collaboration between leading Latvian cellist Ruslan Vilensky and the Copenhagen-based Italian bandoneon player, Paolo Russo. The program includes mostly original compositions by Paolo Russo as well as a taste of Astor Piazzolla's wonderful masterpieces, especially arranged for this unique ensemble.

www.duo-russo-vilensky.com

TICKETS AVAILABLE here:http://www.jazzhusmontmartre.dk/concerts.2015.04.24

Paolo DiNicola al Circolo Gianni Bosio/Roma - ITALIA

Jacinto Guevara’s Retirement, Texas – USA

Jacinto Guevara diatonic accordionist Jacinto Guevara writes, “Last public performance of all time. After performing, composing, arranging and band-leading since 1976 I'll be retiring my musical career. I've performed at hundreds of private parties, original music clubs, folk festivals, theatrical plays, studio sessions with other bands, recordings for movies (three) and for dignitaries including César Chávez, Gloria Molina, Jesse Jackson and Charlie González.

I thank all the people who have performed with me in the last 38 years including Ray Symczyk and Joaquin Muerte. Thank you, Everto Ruiz at CSU Northridge for lending me the acordeón for a semester as a bribe to get me to learn and perform guitarrón in your mariachi.

Jacinto Guevara’ final gig was at Barriba Cantina, Crocket and Navarro on the Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas Sunday March 15th.

Andy Cutting on Tour - UK

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see and here your musical idol Andy Cutting throughout UK during the next months...

Aleksandar Nikolic (bandoneon and accordion) is musical director and accordion and bandoneon player of the Beltango quintet, one of the worlds best-known tango groups, which has performed more than 500 concerts in 25 different countries.

Aleksandar Nikolic is also the President of Belgrade Accordion Association and Artistic Director of the Belgrade Tango Festival.

Petar Maric (accordion) is recognised as one of the finest young accordionists having won Coupe Mondiale categories for classical, virtuoso and electronic music and is a performer of many different musical styles.

These two superbly talented players with the unique combination of bandoneon and accordion and the special collaboration between professor and student show an abundance of tango repertoire and superb musicianship.